The family fun continues with the Great Movies – 100 Years of Film book with this recommendation following my screening of Way Out West. It has been years since I originally watched Raising Arizona, and I had forgotten, for all intents and purposes, all of it, so I was eager to dive into a…
Category: Did You See That?!? (Tv & Film)
Inception (2010) – Christopher Nolan
A heist film wrapped with multiple dreams, so many in fact, that there has been much debate if the top-level, the main reality of the film itself, is a dream. To support this there is much discussion of the character’s totems, an individual item they carry around with them that is uniquely theirs, one…
Doctor Who (Tom Baker) – Image of the Fendahl
This week’s travels in the TARDIS brings us back to England in the year 1977. Image of the Fendahl is four-part story written by Chris Boucher, that originally aired from 29 October to 19 November, 1977. The story finds a Professor Fendelman (Denis Lill) working on a fossilized human skull, an artifact that should…
Spectre (2015) – Sam Mendes
The new James Bond film opens today, with Daniel Craig’s fourth outing as Ian Fleming’s special agent, 007. And as an avid Bond fan, I had to be there. So what did I think? Gorgeous locations… check. Beautiful women… check (though Monica Bellucci is extremely under-used, as well as Naomi Harris’ Moneypenny). Style… check….
Theeb (2014) – Naji Abu Nowar
Opening today at the Lightbox here in Toronto, as well as Vancouver and Calgary, with additional locations to follow on December 18, is the latest work from award-winning director Naji Abu Nowar. Shot in Jordan, and being submitted as their official Oscar Entry for Best Foreign Language Film for the 2016 Academy Awards, comes this…
The Belles of St. Trinian’s (1954) – Frank Launder
The exploration of family titles continues in my time with the Great Movies – 100 Years of Film book. This one is one of the recommendations for my viewing of Way Out West, and it has the luxury of introducing me to an Alastair Sims film that I didn’t know about (though admittedly my…
Game of Thrones – Season 1 & 2 Steelbook Collector Sets
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years, you are well aware of the pop culture phenomena that is Game of Thrones, based on the colossal novels by George R.R. Martin the series has found a home at HBO, and legions of fans worldwide have taken this bloody, sexy, political…
The Prestige (2006) – Chrisopher Nolan
The Sci-Fi Chronicles book has been a welcome addition to my library, and I was delighted to see that the next subject for me to cover is director Christopher Nolan. I’ve written about most of his other films, and all the ones the book recommends previously, but for The Prestige, and one other film….
The Paleface (1948) – Norman Z. McLeod
The family titles continue in the Great Movies – 100 Years of Film book, following my screening of Way Out West. This time around, Bob Hope stars as a cowardly dentist, ‘Painless’ Peter Potter, working in a frontier town, and consulting his book on dentistry to get through his patients ails. He doesn’t realize…
Way Out West (1937) – James W. Horne
I dive into some family titles now with the Great Movies – 100 Years of Film book, and I hesitate to admit this, this was my first experience with a Laurel and Hardy film. The only real complaint I have about the film is that it is too short, clocking in at just over…
The Mind Reels 